February 15, 2025

UNCDF, partners launch e-learning modules for SMBs

UNCDF, partners launch e-learning modules for SMBs

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and its companions have released essential e-discovering modules to assist modest and micro-companies (SMBs) in Bangladesh as part of the Establish Again Much better – Boosting Restoration and Resilience of Tiny and Micro-Organizations venture.

The challenge aims to improve the digital and monetary literacy of business people in Bangladesh, significantly gals, empowering them to confidently undertake and leverage new digital services that strengthen their competitiveness and functionality, stated a push launch.

UNCDF and Visa, together with area companions, Aspire to Innovate (a2i), ekShop and ShopUp, have designed a custom suite of essential e-finding out modules – ekShop landing web site (https://academy.ekshop.gov.bd/)and ShopUp landing website page 1 and 2 (https://blog.shopup.com.bd/) – on finance and enterprise administration, such as audio-visible and app-based mostly equipment.

In the first roll-out of the e-discovering modules, the task will help 200,000 SMBs which includes 5,000 females-led and owned tiny and micro-businesses get the needed digital and economical capabilities to access and use the equipment they have to have to grow their small business in the electronic age.

These modules are embedded in just the onboarding platform of ekShop and ShopUp in the variety of topic-primarily based on line classes allowing for any smaller and micro-enterprise on the platform to instantly entry these resources.

The important topics of the essential modules involve – Making a company prepare, Monetary basic principles, Financial management, Selling a business and Organization to e-company.

In conjunction with the rollout of these modules, UNCDF will provide instruction assist to guide SMBs with the onboarding procedure, with a concentrate on closing gender gaps in electronic and financial literacy.

Dependent on feedback from contributors on the fundamental modules, UNCDF and its associates will subsequently acquire innovative modules to address increased-buy company information and expertise, these kinds of as setting up money statements and document-holding, business enterprise hazard management and environmental sustainability.

The modules leverage Visa’s Realistic Company Skills (PBS) economic educational programme, and they are also especially intended to goal gender-particular gaps in conceptual capacity and complex understanding, focusing on enhancing know-how of curiosity and inflation fee principles and calculations as effectively as offering applications to assist in incorporating these principles for small business final decision-producing.

UNCDF and Visa also commissioned a Speedy Demands Assessment to assess the current amount of economic and digital literacy of SMBs that was launched at an on the web function on 24 May well with contributors from across the main public and private sector organizations globally and in South Asia.

Their analyze discovered significant gaps in the digital literacy ranges of entrepreneurs in Bangladesh with the gaps currently being even a lot more pronounced for ladies business owners.

More than 50% of SMBs in the examine had a poor knowing of how digital and money services could enable their companies.

Gender gaps have remained irrespective of expanding consciousness from females-led SMBs on the require to be financially literate, prepare and actively handle their particular and organization finances.